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Frequently asked about The Fate of the Furious

Common questions people search for, with answers written by us at MoviesPack.

• Is "The Fate of the Furious" the last film?▾

  No. The Fate of the Furious (2017) is the eighth installment in the Fast & Furious franchise, followed by F9 (2021), Fast X (2023), and additional planned sequels.

• Is The Fate of the Furious the 8th movie?▾

  Yes. The Fate of the Furious is the eighth main film in the Fast & Furious franchise, released in 2017.

• Why did Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson not get along?▾

  Tensions between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson became public during the filming of The Fate of the Furious in 2016, when Johnson posted an Instagram message criticizing unnamed male co-stars as unprofessional. Johnson later confirmed the dispute was with Diesel, citing differences in work ethic and on-set philosophy, and the two filmed their scenes separately.

• Why does Dom betray his crew and work for Cipher?▾

  Cipher is holding Dom's secret son, Brian Marcus — the child of his deceased former lover Elena Neves — as leverage. Dom never knew Elena was pregnant, and Cipher reveals this only after she has already secured the child and Elena as hostages. Dom complies with Cipher's demands to protect his son's life, operating alone and in secret because Cipher has eyes on him at all times.

• Who is Elena and what happens to her in the film?▾

  Elena Neves is a former DSS agent and Dom's girlfriend from earlier in the franchise who became pregnant with his child after the events of Fast Five. Cipher uses Elena and their infant son Brian as hostages to control Dom. After Dom completes his primary objective for Cipher, Cipher executes Elena in front of him as a show of power and to remove what she sees as a liability.

• What is Cipher's ultimate plan and how does it nearly succeed?▾

  Cipher's goal is to steal a nuclear launch device — specifically the football that controls Russian nuclear submarines — so she can hold nations hostage and operate without government interference. She uses Dom to steal an EMP device, hack and commandeer hundreds of self-driving cars in New York, and ultimately force Dom to obtain the nuclear football from a Russian motorcade in the Arctic. Her plan nearly succeeds because she always controls a hostage and anticipates the team's countermoves.

• How does Owen Shaw's brother Deckard Shaw end up helping Dom's crew despite being their enemy?▾

  Mr. Nobody and his agency break Deckard Shaw out of the black-site prison where he was being held, covertly recruiting him and his brother Owen to extract Dom's son from Cipher's plane. Shaw's motivation is partly personal — Cipher was responsible for the attack that put Owen in a coma — and partly a grudging alignment of interests with Dom's team. His participation is kept secret from the rest of the crew until the mission is already underway.

• What is the significance of Dom naming his son Brian at the end of the film?▾

  Dom names his son Brian Marcus after Brian O'Conner, his closest friend and brother-in-law who retired from the crew following the events of Furious 7. The name is the film's tribute to the late Paul Walker, the actor who played Brian, and signals that Brian O'Conner's legacy lives on within Dom's family. The moment reaffirms that family — both blood and chosen — is the franchise's central theme.